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England Defeats France & REMATCH

England Defeat France in Match So Entertaining FIFA May Accidentally Schedule It Again As the comedian Michael McIntyre once observed of English sporting hope, “We don’t get excited, we get cautiously optimistic in a way that’s indistinguishable from dread.” Nobody in Miami Gardens, Florida looked cautiously optimistic on Saturday night. They looked like people who had accidentally wandered into the wrong kind of theme park. Third-Place Playoff Turns Into Accidental Box Office…

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Bronze Comes Home

Bronze Comes Home After Gold and Silver Make Other Arrangements As the comedian Jimmy Carr once put it about English optimism, “We don’t fear failure — we frame it.” Nowhere was that more visible than Miami Gardens, Florida, where England didn’t so much win football’s holy grail as return home clutching the runner-up’s consolation prize and insisting it was actually the good one. England Beat France 6-4 in the Most England…